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Why ridicule the act, the feeling blame,
Which from the spider would the fly reclaim;
Since from the reptile, in gradation due,
'Twould link the world in sympathy to you?
Let not this bold assertion ease thy mind,
"This all is nature, and by heav'n design'd:"
Would you not bless the arm, if stretch'd to save
Your individual carcass from the grave?
From the fierce tiger's unrelenting claw,
Or rav'nous wolf; though Nature gave the law?

— Isaac Gompertz The Modern Antique; Or, The Muse in the Costume of Queen Anne (1813)

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If after ages grow more humaniz'd,
And present cruelty almost forgot;
How will the reader, shudd'ring, be surpris'd,
At living lobsters in a boiling pot.

The Modern Antique; Or, The Muse in the Costume of Queen Anne (1813)

Too much you've view'd, too poignantly you've felt,
Too long on human sufferings we've dwelt;
These woful visions shift, but scenes appear,
Which tho' less painful, cause the conscious tear.

Time, or Light and Shade (1815)

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